On 03/07/07, Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley jb@fsfe.org wrote:
dgerard: >>No, because it includes Northern Ireland :-)<<
Just in case you weren't being funny, FTR. GB is the ISO 3166-1 code for the United Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 and the other chapters are named per ISO 3166.
Yes, and that was ignored for domain names, so an exception for this is entirely in line. (.gb is in fact inactive, according to this large online encyclopedia I sometimes use.)
It's an organisation to be used by humans, so the name is a marketing consideration, not an ISO compliance one.
- d.